OK, when you update to TB38 you only get Lightning if you already had it installed and operating. So when you updated, I guess Thunderbird respected your previous configuration and disabled Lightning.

Go to Tools|Add-ons, search for Lightning and install it as per usual.

Lightning was installed and active. I have the Calendar panel on the right side of Thunderbird. So I disable it, downloaded the Lightning 4.01 again and installed. Everything came back as usual. But when I go into Tools/Options, Lightning is supposed to be one of the option across the top of Options window. It is not there. So I can't get 'into' Lightning to then select 'New' and add my Google Calendar.

I have no idea what is happening with your options. But you don't add a calendar from there anyway.

File menu (alt+F) > new > calendar. Or int he claendar tab right click the calendar list and select new.

I'm not trying to add a Calendar, that came with TB38. I trying to get it linked to my Google Calendar, and according to instructions, you have to go into Lightning/File/New to do that. I can't find out to get into 'Lightning" to do that. Supposedly, there should be a Lightning option in the TB Options, next Attachments and Advanced. There is no Lightning option there.

press Alt+F. Select the new entry on that menu. then chose calendar. I do not know how to make it clearer.

So please let go of that stuff your posting and act.

Nor can I make it any clearer. I did do the Alt/F, I did click on Calendar under New, and I did end up with another calendar option within the Calendar I already had on TB. What I want to do, is connect the TB calendar with my Google calendar so that info propagates over into TB.

So please stop suggesting things already done that don't accomplish what I'm trying to do. There is an Add-on for assisting with the Calendar link, which is called Provider for Google Calendar 1.0.4., which provides "bidirectional access to Google Calendar". I've installed that Add-on, and according to the instructions on Mozilla, you link them by choosing Lightning from the Options menu in TB, then once in there, File/Calendar.

So please refrain from directing me to 'act'. Been there, done that...

I don;'t care what the instructions say. They are about a decade out of date in my opinion. I don't have time to rewrite them. Perhaps you do. But they are mostly just old and not all that helpful.

First thing. Go to you google calendar and select the calendar details from the drop down menu beside the calendar name. Beside the nice colourful XLM ICAL HTML entries in the calendar address you will see calendar ID. It may well be your gmail address. Note that as you need it to set up your chosen google calendar.

I assume you did not select on the network when you did what you did your File > New >calendar and did not achieve what you thought you should. Make sure you do. Google calendars of on the internet not your computer. Then you choose caldav. In the location box enter https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/calid/user

Replace the calid in the link for your new calendar with the id you got from the Google settings on the web. Click next Give the calendar a name and associate it to an email address for the sending of invitations and the receipt of same. Finish the wizard. All done.

That is how you add a Google calendar.

You don't connect an existing calendar to Google Calendar. You create a new calendar. In doing so, you select the "on the network" option and then follow the advice given by Matt to enter the address of your Google Calendar.

At first sight it seemed to me to be disappointing and clumsy. I had lots of stuff set up in the "home" calendar and since it wasn't in the new network-connected calendar, none of my existing stuff would be automatically shared.

At the time I started using it, there was no obvious way to move items from one calendar to another. One method would be to export an event to an ics file then import it into the new calendar. I think now that if you open an event for editing, you have an option to select which calendar to save it back to.

I'm not sure if the address given by Matt still works. See this: https://blog.mozilla.org/calendar/2013/09/google-is-changing-the-location-url-of-their-caldav-calendars/

You can use Google Provider if you must, and then the address you use will be one as described by Matt, but the entry point is still File|New|Calendar. Forget Tools|Options.

Thanks, Zenos, for that reply. I'll give it a try later today.

Zenos, That worked great. Thanks for instructions. Quick and easy...

Yes it is the new endpoint Zenos. The V2 in the URL was the major change.

Gee, Matt, you're such a whiz. If only you could find a better way to impart knowledge without being so condescending and arrogant...

DEUser said

Gee, Matt, you're such a whiz. If only you could find a better way to impart knowledge without being so condescending and arrogant...

But where is the fun in that?

The customer is always right has become a mantra. It is also a load of tosh. That phrase was coined in a nation that warns people that boiling water is hot. Those same people who need to be warned about the dangers of boiling water from their kettle are not always right. In fact they rarely are.

So here is a challenge for you. Spend some time on this forum and answer questions about Lightning. No one else really wants to do it. Perhaps you will be good at it and I will then not have to involve myself in topics I really have little or no interest in.

Yes, I agree with that premise. But keep in mind, there's nothing PC about tech stuff and it's not as simple as the dangers of boiling water (although for some, it might be.) Most people have a problem with the simplest of procedures in that arena. And, anyone who has an aptitude for it, wasn't born knowing about it. They had to ask and learn somewhere along the line.

If it causes you that much consternation, just don't do it. They'll just have to ask elsewhere...

jefitz45 related posts are coverend in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1074936 so I'm deleting them to avoid future confusion